African Agriculture and Food Systems
Nairobi/Nyandarua/Machakos, Kenya — September 2026 In the misty rows of Kinangop, a labourer bends over trellised vines at dawn, snapping off pale-green snow pea pods bound for a…
Read more →Before Tanzania can build an export industry around shokishoki, it helps to know exactly what the fruit is, where it came from, and why it already grows on…
A little-known fruit traded informally between Zanzibar and the mainland is now the subject of a serious commercial assessment — one that maps a possible new export industry…
A History of the Ol Kalou Salient Settlement Scheme, Nyandarua County Kilimokwanza Feature Desk Nyandarua, Kenya — On the high volcanic plateau west of the Aberdare Ranges, dawn…
Kigali, Rwanda / Nouakchott, Mauritania A new FAO methodology launched on 4 September 2026 at the Africa Food Systems Forum (AFSF) in Kigali shows that Mauritania has, for…
Kigali, Rwanda / Kampala, Uganda Uganda’s public spending on agriculture alone has long sat below the African Union’s 10 percent target — but a new FAO methodology launched…
Since 2003, African governments have made the same promise three times. In Maputo, in Malabo, and now in Kampala, heads of state have pledged to put at least…
Kigali, Rwanda, 4 September 2026 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched a new methodology on 4 September 2026, at a side event of…
For years, the arithmetic of Tanzania’s seed supply has worked against its own farmers: more than half of the certified seed planted every season has had to be…
SAGCOT and the Paper Trail —How Tanzania's Flagship Agriculture Programme Kept Leaning on One Corridor — Until It Became the Plan
Dar es Salaam — At the 10th Africa Agri Expo and 3rd Future Food, Livestock and Poultry Expo, AGCOT Centre’s Tullah Mloge argued that Tanzania cannot scale its…
Taveta, Kenya — A newly released report from the Kanani Farmers Self-Help Group has laid bare the scale of the drainage crisis facing the Lower River Lumi, confirming…
Hegemony, Harmonisation and Seed Sovereignty — Kilimokwanza.org Kilimokwanza.org Research report, incorporating findings from ESAFF’s regional archive Hegemony, Harmonisation and Seed Sovereignty Inside the EAC’s Draft Seed and Plant…
Dar es Salaam, 3 September 2026 — For years, Tanzania’s agricultural story has followed a familiar script: rich soils, generous rainfall, hardworking farmers — and then a harvest…
Tanzania Takes Its US$100 Billion Agriculture Case to Kigali à
Dodoma, 27 August 2026 — The Tanzania Dairy Board (TDB) hosted leaders of the Tanzania Society of Animal Production (TSAP) at the Board’s headquarters in Dodoma, in a…
Rukwa, August 2026 For the first time in Tanzania’s history, a consignment of white maize has changed hands not at a roadside depot or a middleman’s truck, but…
From The EDITOR: When the 9th Africa Agri Expo and the 3rd Future Food, Livestock and Poultry Expo (FLIP) open their doors on 2nd and 3rd September 2026…
More than 5,000 leaders, six former presidents and one sitting head of state converge on Rwanda this September, as the continent asks whether two decades of promises can…
11 July 1939 – 26 August 1999 Today marks twenty-seven years since the death of Mwalimu Charles Mwangi Muchoki, a teacher, public servant, and son of Migumo-ini village…
An Industrial and Culinary Guide to Value-Added Products Derived from Irish Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum)
The Africa Food Systems Forum (AFSF) is gearing up for its most ambitious summit yet as it celebrates two decades of driving agricultural transformation across the continent. The…
DODOMA · CLOSING DAY RETROSPECTIVE · 8 AUGUST 2026 Dodoma, 8 August 2026 — On the final day of this year’s Nane Nane celebrations — the actual national…
Tanzania’s ambition to become a competitive agricultural powerhouse will depend not only on how much the country produces, but increasingly on how well it understands markets, meets quality…